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...came first as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers, with the bright blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest. Behind rode his aides: the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, the Earls of Athlone and Harewood and Prince Arthur of Connaught, behind them again, a patchwork of bright color, gilt and jangle, all the foreign military attaches. Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled. Princess Elizabeth waved prettily...
Gawd, what a volume! And the title in small gilt letter--that's always a bad sign .... Ah-ha, someone has already been through this and marked the important paragraphs! 289 1-2 pages and its three-thirty now. Well, maybe I can get through...
...accounting work for courts and public prosecutors in bankruptcies and reorganizations. In his book he reviews what happened to $11,988,814,205 of defaulted securities "sold to the public by reputable banking houses." He declares: "The author ... is unwilling that the billions of dollars lost in so-called gilt-edged investments shall be written off to the Depression, when he knows that much of the fault lies in the lack of honesty in American business...
Year ago the little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price...
...Chicago News, gave his version of what has become a cause celebre in Chicago trust circles. Wrote he: "The [First National] bank gave his [Mr. Busby's] affairs close consideration. . . . The stocks . . . are still held today. Those dumb securities, a little pile of stock certificates with gilt edges, have reached out of the obscurity of the vaults to vindicate Traylor and cover the trust department of the bank with laurels...